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Mirror, Mirror

I can’t remember whether it was on the radio or the TV, but I’m sure it was Esther Rantzen who told a story about having a plaque above the mirror on her dressing room wall saying:- “Mirror, mirror, on...

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The Station Master at Milan

I just heard a very funny story on Quote Unquote, a favourite radio show of mine. I must tell it to my father-in-law, although it is the kind of story he may well already know. A traveller has a...

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Fine words butter no parsnips

Over dinner chez wizzud yesterday evening – in the company of Him Indoors and his parents – I was tucking into some rather nice roast pork with potatoes and parsnips cooked boulanger-style when I was...

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Your role has been demised

Announcing yet another round of banking industry redundancies yesterday (23 April 2013), an anonymous HSBC spokesperson was quoted on the BBC News website as having said that “the roles of commercial...

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The return of Quote… Unquote

One of my favourite quiz shows, Quote… Unquote, has returned to Radio 4 for a new series. Here are a couple of highlights from yesterday’s broadcast: The last words of Emiliano Zapata, that leading...

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Famous Last Words

I like stories about amusing death-bed words like those of, for instance, Oscar Wilde, which were, reportedly, “Either this wallpaper goes or I do.” so I was amused to hear today that when O Henry was...

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